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Thierry Noir, who covered the Berlin Wall with his hallmark cartoons, is showing both old and new works at Phillips’ gallery space.
From hot air balloons to secret tunnels, some tried anything to escape East Berlin. These are the most daring—and strangest—attempts.
Berlin Wall – East Side Gallery — a preserved section filled with powerful murals. Museum Island — home to the bust of Nefertiti, ancient treasures, and world-class museums.
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and other areas of East Germany from 1961 to 1989.
In Berlin, tens of thousands of people have celebrated Christopher Street Day, the German capital's annual Pride parade. This year's event was overshadowed by Germany's new conservative government ...
'Being 20 in West Berlin' (2/6). In the late 1970s, Karin Wieland fled her small German town to live communally in an abandoned building in Kreuzberg, throwing herself into every cause of the era.
Building the Eurostar-style links between London, Frankfurt and Cologne will be first on the list, while Berlin will be the final stop added across the roughly decade-long plan.
The coffee shop and patisserie in the Kreuzberg neighborhood has become a daytime hot spot in a city known for its nightlife.
Two New Hampshire executive councilors are pressing the state attorney general for an update on a murder-suicide that happened in Berlin.
Hanns Zischler in West Berlin, 1977. ELKE ROSTHAL Khrushchev was wrong. After the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, the leader of the Soviet Union believed he did not need to worry ...
BERLIN—Less than 20 years ago, Germany decided the risk of a military attack on its territory was so low that it decommissioned the country’s last air-raid bunkers.